Steven Van Acker has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the "add_port()" function in Pound.

Impact=====

A remote attacker could send a request for an overly long hostname parameter, which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the Pound daemon process (by default, Gentoo uses the "nobody" user to run the Pound daemon).

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